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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_support.py23
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_support.py b/Lib/test/test_support.py
index 5dec21b..99bacda 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_support.py
@@ -1,9 +1,26 @@
-# Python test set -- supporting definitions.
+"""Supporting definitions for the Python regression test."""
+
+
+class Error(Exception):
+ """Base class for regression test exceptions."""
+
+class TestFailed(Error):
+ """Test failed."""
+
+class TestSkipped(Error):
+ """Test skipped.
+
+ This can be raised to indicate that a test was deliberatly
+ skipped, but not because a feature wasn't available. For
+ example, if some resource can't be used, such as the network
+ appears to be unavailable, this should be raised instead of
+ TestFailed.
+
+ """
-class TestFailed(Exception):
- pass
verbose = 1 # Flag set to 0 by regrtest.py
+use_large_resources = 1 # Flag set to 0 by regrtest.py
def unload(name):
import sys